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MINI Cooper fan problem
This is me charging my 2006 MINI S.
The battery was dead and I just assumed (HA!) that it was drained from being unused for months. Nope! The electric fan behind the radiator was not turning off. I charged the battery, went for a ride and when I left the car parked the battery was drained [...]
And the snow thrower is back
A few weeks ago I dropped off my snow thrower at the Sears repair location in Melville. On Friday I got an automated call from Sears saying it was done and I could pick it up. The original plan was to pick it up this Saturday. But since tomorrow there is supposed to be a [...]
Year of the Tiger
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Tiger and Sunday was Valentine’s Day too. What a dilemma: do you pay attention to the New Year or to the made up Hallmark holiday? That was solved in seconds and we went to celebrate the New Year.
This has been a busy weekend. On Friday I [...]
Well I sure taught the snow who’s boss
All day yesterday it snowed from around midnight to at least 11:30 PM. Several times I went out and cleared the driveway. Around the end of my second pass I noticed that the oil cap came off on my snow thrower and oil was burning. I shut it down and replaced the cap.
Later on when [...]
8 bags of garbage
My family and I have been living in our house for over 5 years now. During that time, I have cleaned up my junk in the basement a couple of times. Our kids? Not once. Our basement looked like an organized mess. All of their toys (mostly broken) were piled up against the wall.
That changed [...]
Christmas tree 2009
I put the tree up last week but only today did the family put on the bulbs and tinsel. This year we could not find the glass spire for the star so we used one that we had that lights up.
It looks good and I’m very satisfied with it.
Funny how things turn out
We picked the pool company (again) and finally signed the contract last night to build a pool in the yard.
It’s funny how this worked out. We were ready to sign the contract with a different pool company on Monday then something happened… I was ticked and didn’t want to use this company. You see, we [...]
Don’t look at the clock, just go to sleep
You know how when you can’t sleep, your eyes sometimes wander to the digital clock on the night table? At some point everyone does that. It’s no good since you are not going to sleep, you are just watching the clock countdown. The whole night can go by that way repeating that same counter productive [...]
10 laps tonight
I went swimming with my wife again and swam 10 laps. Not as exhausted as last time but pretty tired.
Making a Tooth for the Tooth Fairy
Note from Jan Dembowski: This post is from my friend André Quitta. André sometimes shares his stories here.
My son, Aaron, is six years old and just lost his first tooth. It was one of his bottom front teeth, one that had been loose for about a week. He had heard about the Tooth Fairy [...]
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